1 {1:1} The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah. {1:2} Hear,
O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath
spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they
have rebelled against me. {1:3} The ox knoweth his owner,
and the ass his master’s crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my
people doth not consider. {1:4} Ah sinful nation, a people
laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are
corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have
provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone
away backward.
{1:5} Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt
more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart
faint. {1:6} From the sole of the foot even unto the head
[there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and
putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound
up, neither mollified with ointment. {1:7} Your country [is]
desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land,
strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as
overthrown by strangers. {1:8} And the daughter of Zion is
left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of
cucumbers, as a besieged city. {1:9} Except the LORD of
hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have
been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto
Gomorrah.
{1:10} Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom;
give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
{1:11} To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices
unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of
rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood
of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. {1:12} When ye
come to appear before me, who hath required this at your
hand, to tread my courts? {1:13} Bring no more vain
oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new
moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot
away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting. {1:14}
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:
they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them.]
{1:15} And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide
mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I
will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
{1:16} Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of
your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; {1:17}
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. {1:18} Come
now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
{1:19} If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good
of the land: {1:20} But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath
spoken [it.]
{1:21} How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was
full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now
murderers. {1:22} Thy silver is become dross, thy wine
mixed with water: {1:23} Thy princes [are] rebellious, and
companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and
followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,
neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. {1:24}
Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty
One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and
avenge me of mine enemies:
{1:25} And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely
purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: {1:26} And
I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors
as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city
of righteousness, the faithful city. {1:27} Zion shall be
redeemed with judgment, and her converts with
righteousness.
{1:28} And the destruction of the transgressors and of the
sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD
shall be consumed. {1:29} For they shall be ashamed of the
oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for
the gardens that ye have chosen. {1:30} For ye shall be as
an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no
water. {1:31} And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker
of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none
shall quench [them.]
2 {2:1} The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem. {2:2} And it shall come to
pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD’S
house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow
unto it. {2:3} And many people shall go and say, Come ye,
and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house
of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and
we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the
law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. {2:4} And
he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
{2:5} O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the
light of the LORD.
{2:6} Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house
of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and
[are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please
themselves in the children of strangers. {2:7} Their land
also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of
their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is
there any] end of their chariots: {2:8} Their land also is full
of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that
which their own fingers have made: {2:9} And the mean
man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself:
therefore forgive them not.
{2:10} Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for
fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. {2:11}
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD
alone shall be exalted in that day. {2:12} For the day of the
LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and
lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up; and he shall be
brought low: {2:13} And upon all the cedars of Lebanon,
[that are] high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of
Bashan, {2:14} And upon all the high mountains, and upon
all the hills [that are] lifted up, {2:15} And upon every high
tower, and upon every fenced wall, {2:16} And upon all the
ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. {2:17}
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the
haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone
shall be exalted in that day. {2:18} And the idols he shall
utterly abolish. {2:19} And they shall go into the holes of
the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the
LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth. {2:20} In that day a man shall cast
his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made
[each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the
bats; {2:21} To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the
tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the
earth. {2:22} Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his
nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
3 {3:1} For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take
away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff,
the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, {3:2}
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the
prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, {3:3} The captain
of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the
cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. {3:4} And I will
give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over
them. {3:5} And the people shall be oppressed, every one
by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall
behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base
against the honourable. {3:6} When a man shall take hold
of his brother of the house of his father, [saying,] Thou hast
a mantle, be thou our ruler, and [let] this heap of ruins [be]
under thy hand: {3:7} In that day shall he swear, saying, I will
not be an healer; for in my house [is] neither bread nor cloth-
ing: make me not a ruler of the people. {3:8} For Jerusalem is
ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their
doings [are] against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his
glory.
{3:9} The shew of their countenance doth witness against
them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not.
Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto
themselves. {3:10} Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be]
well [with him:] for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
{3:11} Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him:] for
the reward of his hands shall be given him.
{3:12} [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors,
and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead
thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
{3:13} The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to
judge the people. {3:14} The LORD will enter into
judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes
thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the
poor [is] in your houses. {3:15} What mean ye [that] ye
beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?
saith the LORD GOD of hosts.
{3:16} Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters
of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks
and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [as] they go, and
making a tinkling with their feet: {3:17} Therefore the
LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret
parts. {3:18} In that day the Lord will take away the
bravery of [their] tinkling ornaments [about their feet,] and
[their] cauls, and [their] round tires like the moon, {3:19}
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, {3:20} The
bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands,
and the tablets, and the earrings, {3:21} The rings, and nose
jewels, {3:22} The changeable suits of apparel, and the
mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, {3:23} The
glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
{3:24} And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet
smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and
instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher
a girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty.
{3:25} Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in
the war. {3:26} And her gates shall lament and mourn; and
she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground.
4 {4:1} And in that day seven women shall take hold of one
man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own
apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our
reproach. {4:2} In that day shall the branch of the LORD be
beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth [shall be]
excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
{4:3} And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion,
and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
[even] every one that is written among the living in
Jerusalem: {4:4} When the Lord shall have washed away
the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the
blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of
judgment, and by the spirit of burning. {4:5} And the
LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount
Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the
glory [shall be] a defence. {4:6} And there shall be a
tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and
for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from
rain.
5 {5:1} Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my
beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a
vineyard in a very fruitful hill: {5:2} And he fenced it, and
gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the
choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also
made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring
forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. {5:3} And
now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I
pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. {5:4} What could
have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done
in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth
grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? {5:5} And now go to; I
will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away
the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down
the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: {5:6} And I
will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there
shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain upon it. {5:7} For the vineyard
of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but
behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
{5:8} Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay
field to field, till [there be] no place, that they may be
placed alone in the midst of the earth! {5:9} In mine ears
[said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be
desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant. {5:10}
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed
of an homer shall yield an ephah.
{5:11} Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
[that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until
night, [till] wine inflame them! {5:12} And the harp, and
the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts:
but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider
the operation of his hands.
{5:13} Therefore my people are gone into captivity,
because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable
men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
{5:14} Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her
mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
{5:15} And the mean man shall be brought down, and the
mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall
be humbled: {5:16} But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted
in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in
righteousness. {5:17} Then shall the lambs feed after their
manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers
eat. {5:18} Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of
vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: {5:19} That say,
Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see
it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh
and come, that we may know [it!]
{5:20} Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! {5:21} Woe unto
[them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their
own sight! {5:22} Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink
wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: {5:23}
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him! {5:24} Therefore
as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their
blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away
the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel. {5:25} Therefore is the anger of the
LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched
forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the
hills did tremble, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst
of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but
his hand [is] stretched out still.
{5:26} And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from
far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and,
behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: {5:27} None
shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber
nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,
nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: {5:28} Whose
arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’
hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a
whirlwind: {5:29} Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they
shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold
of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall
deliver [it.] {5:30} And in that day they shall roar against
them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the
land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
6 {6:1} In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the
Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train
filled the temple. {6:2} Above it stood the seraphims: each
one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with
twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. {6:3}
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is]
the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory.
{6:4} And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him
that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
{6:5} Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because
I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King,
the LORD of hosts. {6:6} Then flew one of the seraphims
unto me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had
taken with the tongs from off the altar: {6:7} And he laid
[it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. {6:8}
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send
me.
{6:9} And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye
indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive
not. {6:10} Make the heart of this people fat, and make their
ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,
and convert, and be healed. {6:11} Then said I, Lord, how
long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without
inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be
utterly desolate, {6:12} And the LORD have removed men
far away, and [there be] a great forsaking in the midst of the
land.
{6:13} But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return,
and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose
substance is in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the
holy seed [shall be] the substance thereof.
7 {7:1} And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of
Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, [that] Rezin the
king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel,
went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not
prevail against it. {7:2} And it was told the house of David,
saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart
was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the
wood are moved with the wind. {7:3} Then said the LORD
unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub
thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller’s field; {7:4} And say unto him,
Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for
the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
{7:5} Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,
have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, {7:6} Let us
go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach
therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the
son of Tabeal: {7:7} Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not
stand, neither shall it come to pass. {7:8} For the head of
Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin;
and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be
broken, that it be not a people. {7:9} And the head of
Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is]
Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not
be established.
{7:10} Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz,
saying, {7:11} Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it
either in the depth, or in the height above. {7:12} But Ahaz
said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. {7:13}
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small
thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
{7:14} Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall
call his name Immanuel. {7:15} Butter and honey shall he
eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the
good. {7:16} For before the child shall know to refuse the
evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest
shall be forsaken of both her kings.
{7:17} The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy
people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not
come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah;
[even] the king of Assyria. {7:18} And it shall come to pass
in that day, [that] the LORD shall hiss for the horseflies that
[is] in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the
bumblebees that [is] in the land of Assyria. {7:19} And they
shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys,
and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon
all bushes. {7:20} In the same day shall the Lord shave with a
razor that is hired, [namely,] by them beyond the river, by the
king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it
shall also consume the beard. {7:21} And it shall come to
pass in that day, [that] a man shall nourish a young cow,
and two sheep; {7:22} And it shall come to pass, for the
abundance of milk [that] they shall give he shall eat butter:
for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the
land. {7:23} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] ev-
ery place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a
thousand silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns.
{7:24} With arrows and with bows shall [men] come
thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
{7:25} And [on] all hills that shall be digged with the
mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and
thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for
the treading of lesser cattle.
8 {8:1} Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a
great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning
Maher-shalal-hash-baz. {8:2} And I took unto me faithful
witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son
of Jeberechiah. {8:3} And I went unto the prophetess; and
she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me,
Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. {8:4} For before the
child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my
mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria
shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
{8:5} The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, {8:6}
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that
go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; {8:7}
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the
waters of the river, strong and many, [even] the king of
Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his
channels, and go over all his banks: {8:8} And he shall pass
through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach
[even] to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall
fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
{8:9} Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird
yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. {8:10} Take
counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the
word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
{8:11} For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong
hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of
this people, saying, {8:12} Say ye not, A confederacy, to all
[them to] whom this people shall say, A confederacy;
neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. {8:13} Sanctify the
LORD of hosts himself; and [let] him [be] your fear, and
[let] him [be] your dread. {8:14} And he shall be for a
sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of
offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {8:15} And many among
them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken. {8:16} Bind up the testimony, seal the law
among my disciples. {8:17} And I will wait upon the
LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I
will look for him. {8:18} Behold, I and the children whom
the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in
Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount
Zion.
{8:19} And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them
that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and
that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the
living to the dead? {8:20} To the law and to the testimony:
if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because
[there is] no light in them. {8:21} And they shall pass
through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to
pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look
upward. {8:22} And they shall look unto the earth; and
behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they
shall be] driven to darkness.
9 {9:1} Nevertheless the dimness [shall] not [be] such as
[was] in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted
the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward
did more grievously afflict [her by] the way of the sea,
beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. {9:2} The people
that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that
dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath
the light shined. {9:3} Thou hast multiplied the nation,
[and] not increased the joy: they joy before thee according
to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they
divide the spoil. {9:4} For thou hast broken the yoke of his
burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his
oppressor, as in the day of Midian. {9:5} For every battle of
the warrior [is] with confused noise, and garments rolled in
blood; but [this] shall be with burning [and] fuel of fire.
{9:6} For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name
shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. {9:7} Of the
increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no
end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to
order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of
hosts will perform this.
{9:8} The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted
upon Israel. {9:9} And all the people shall know, [even]
Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride
and stoutness of heart, {9:10} The bricks are fallen down,
but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut
down, but we will change [them into] cedars. {9:11}
Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin
against him, and join his enemies together; {9:12} The
Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall
devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
{9:13} For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth
them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts. {9:14}
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail,
branch and rush, in one day. {9:15} The ancient and
honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that teacheth
lies, he [is] the tail. {9:16} For the leaders of this people
cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are]
destroyed. {9:17} Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in
their young men, neither shall have mercy on their
fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an
evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his
anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
{9:18} For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour
the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the
forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of
smoke. {9:19} Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is
the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the
fire: no man shall spare his brother. {9:20} And he shall
snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on
the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat
every man the flesh of his own arm: {9:21} Manasseh,
Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they together [shall
be] against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away,
but his hand [is] stretched out still.
10 {10:1} Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees,
and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
{10:2} To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take
away the right from the poor of my people, that widows
may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!
{10:3} And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in
the desolation [which] shall come from far? to whom will
ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? {10:4}
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and
they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
{10:5} O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in
their hand is mine indignation. {10:6} I will send him
against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my
wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take
the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
{10:7} Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart
think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations
not a few. {10:8} For he saith, [Are] not my princes
altogether kings? {10:9} [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is]
not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus?
{10:10} As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,
and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and
of Samaria; {10:11} Shall I not, as I have done unto
Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
{10:12} Wherefore it shall come to pass, [that] when the
Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and
on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the
king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. {10:13}
For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done [it,]
and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed
the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures,
and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man:]
{10:14} And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the
people: and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I
gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the
wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. {10:15} Shall the
axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall
the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the
rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if
the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.
{10:16} Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send
among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall
kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. {10:17} And the
light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers
in one day; {10:18} And shall consume the glory of his
forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they
shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. {10:19} And the
rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may
write them.
{10:20} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the
remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of
Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them;
but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in
truth. {10:21} The remnant shall return, [even] the remnant
of Jacob, unto the mighty God. {10:22} For though thy
people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of
them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow
with righteousness. {10:23} For the Lord GOD of hosts
shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of
all the land.
{10:24} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O
my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the
Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his
staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. {10:25} For
yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and
mine anger in their destruction. {10:26} And the LORD of
hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod
[was] upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of
Egypt. {10:27} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that]
his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and
his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed
because of the anointing. {10:28} He is come to Aiath, he is
passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his
carriages: {10:29} They are gone over the passage: they
have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid;
Gibeah of Saul is fled. {10:30} Lift up thy voice, O
daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor
Anathoth. {10:31} Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants
of Gebim gather themselves to flee. {10:32} As yet shall he
remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand [against] the
mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
{10:33} Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the
bough with terror: and the high ones of stature [shall be]
hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. {10:34}
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,
and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
11 {11:1} And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem
of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: {11:2} And
the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; {11:3}
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of
the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: {11:4} But
with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with
equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips
shall he slay the wicked. {11:5} And righteousness shall be
the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his
reins. {11:6} The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and
the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the
young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall
lead them. {11:7} And the cow and the bear shall feed; their
young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat
straw like the ox. {11:8} And the sucking child shall play
on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his
hand on the cockatrice’ den. {11:9} They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full
of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
{11:10} And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,
which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the
Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. {11:11} And it
shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his
hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his
people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt,
and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from
Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
{11:12} And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and
shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the
dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
{11:13} The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the
adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy
Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. {11:14} But they
shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the
west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall
lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of
Ammon shall obey them. {11:15} And the LORD shall
utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his
mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and
shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over
dryshod. {11:16} And there shall be an highway for the
remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria;
like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the
land of Egypt.
12 {12:1} And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will
praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is
turned away, and thou comfortedst me. {12:2} Behold, God
[is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the
LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also
is become my salvation. {12:3} Therefore with joy shall ye
draw water out of the wells of salvation. {12:4} And in that
day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name,
declare his doings among the people, make mention that his
name is exalted. {12:5} Sing unto the LORD; for he hath
done excellent things: this [is] known in all the earth.
{12:6} Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great
[is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
13 {13:1} The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son
of Amoz did see. {13:2} Lift ye up a banner upon the high
mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that
they may go into the gates of the nobles. {13:3} I have
commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my
highness. {13:4} The noise of a multitude in the mountains,
like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the
kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts
mustereth the host of the battle. {13:5} They come from a
far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and
the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
{13:6} Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it
shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. {13:7}
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart
shall melt: {13:8} And they shall be afraid: pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a
woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another;
their faces [shall be as] flames. {13:9} Behold, the day of
the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners
thereof out of it. {13:10} For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall
be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause
her light to shine. {13:11} And I will punish the world for
[their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will
cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low
the haughtiness of the terrible. {13:12} I will make a man
more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden
wedge of Ophir. {13:13} Therefore I will shake the
heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the
wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger. {13:14} And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a
sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to
his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
{13:15} Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and
every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
{13:16} Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives
ravished. {13:17} Behold, I will stir up the Medes against
them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they
shall not delight in it. {13:18} [Their] bows also shall dash
the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the
fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
{13:19} And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty
of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God
overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. {13:20} It shall never be
inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither
shall the shepherds make their fold there. {13:21} But wild
beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be
full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and
satyrs shall dance there. {13:22} And the wild beasts of the
islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in
[their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and
her days shall not be prolonged.
14 {14:1} For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the
strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to
the house of Jacob. {14:2} And the people shall take them,
and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall
possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and
handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose
captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
{14:3} And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD
shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and
from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
{14:4} That thou shalt take up this proverb against the
king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased!
the golden city ceased! {14:5} The LORD hath broken the
staff of the wicked, [and] the sceptre of the rulers. {14:6}
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] none
hindereth. {14:7} The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet:
they break forth into singing. {14:8} Yea, the fir trees
rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying,] Since
thou art laid down, no hewer is come up against us. {14:9}
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy
coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, [even] all the chief
ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the
kings of the nations. {14:10} All they shall speak and say
unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou
become like unto us? {14:11} Thy pomp is brought down to
the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread
under thee, and the worms cover thee. {14:12} How art
thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
[how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken
the nations! {14:13} For thou hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north: {14:14} I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. {14:15}
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the
pit. {14:16} They that see thee shall narrowly look upon
thee, [and] consider thee, [saying, Is] this the man that made
the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; {14:17}
[That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the
cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners?
{14:18} All the kings of the nations, [even] all of them, lie
in glory, every one in his own house. {14:19} But thou art
cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the
raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword,
that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden
under feet. {14:20} Thou shalt not be joined with them in
burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy
people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
{14:21} Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of
their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor
fill the face of the world with cities. {14:22} For I will rise
up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from
Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith
the LORD. {14:23} I will also make it a possession for the
bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the
besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
{14:24} The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as
I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have
purposed, [so] shall it stand: {14:25} That I will break the
Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him
under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his
burden depart from off their shoulders. {14:26} This [is] the
purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this [is]
the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. {14:27}
For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul [it?] and his hand [is] stretched out, and who shall
turn it back? {14:28} In the year that king Ahaz died was
this burden.
{14:29} Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the
rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s
root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a
fiery flying serpent. {14:30} And the firstborn of the poor
shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will
kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
{14:31} Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina,
[art] dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke,
and none [shall be] alone in his appointed times. {14:32}
What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation?
That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his
people shall trust in it.
15 {15:1} The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of
Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the
night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence;
{15:2} He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high
places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over
Medeba: on all their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every
beard cut off. {15:3} In their streets they shall gird
themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and
in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
{15:4} And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice
shall be heard [even] unto Jahaz: therefore the armed
soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous
unto him. {15:5} My heart shall cry out for Moab; his
fugitives [shall flee] unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old:
for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they
go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a
cry of destruction. {15:6} For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth,
there is no green thing. {15:7} Therefore the abundance
they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall
they carry away to the brook of the willows. {15:8} For the
cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling
thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
{15:9} For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood:
for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that
escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
16 {16:1} Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela
to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
{16:2} For it shall be, [that,] as a wandering bird cast out of
the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of
Arnon. {16:3} Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy
shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the
outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. {16:4} Let mine
outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them
from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end,
the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the
land. {16:5} And in mercy shall the throne be established:
and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David,
judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
{16:6} We have heard of the pride of Moab; [he is] very
proud: [even] of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his
wrath: [but] his lies [shall] not [be] so. {16:7} Therefore
shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the
foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely [they
are] stricken. {16:8} For the fields of Heshbon languish,
[and] the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have
broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come
[even] unto Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness:
her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
{16:9} Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer
the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O
Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer
fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. {16:10} And gladness is
taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the
vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be
shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their]
presses; I have made [their vintage] shouting to cease.
{16:11} Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for
Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
{16:12} And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that
Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his
sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. {16:13} This [is]
the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab
since that time. {16:14} But now the LORD hath spoken,
saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and
the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great
multitude; and the remnant [shall be] very small [and]
feeble.
17 {17:1} The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus
is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous
heap. {17:2} The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall
be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make
[them] afraid. {17:3} The fortress also shall cease from
Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant
of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,
saith the LORD of hosts. {17:4} And in that day it shall
come to pass, [that] the glory of Jacob shall be made thin,
and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. {17:5} And it
shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and
reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that
gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
{17:6} Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the
shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of
the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful
branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. {17:7} At
that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall
have respect to the Holy One of Israel. {17:8} And he shall
not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall
respect [that] which his fingers have made, either the
groves, or the images.
{17:9} In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken
bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of
the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. {17:10}
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and
hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore
shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange
slips: {17:11} In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow,
and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish:
[but] the harvest [shall be] a heap in the day of grief and of
desperate sorrow.
{17:12} Woe to the multitude of many people, [which]
make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of
nations, [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty
waters! {17:13} The nations shall rush like the rushing of
many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall
flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the
mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before
the whirlwind. {17:14} And behold at eveningtide trouble;
[and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of
them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18 {18:1} Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which
[is] beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: {18:2} That sendeth
ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon
the waters, [saying,] Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation
scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their
beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down,
whose land the rivers have spoiled! {18:3} All ye
inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye,
when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he
bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. {18:4} For so the LORD said
unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my
dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, [and] like a
cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. {18:5} For afore the
harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is
ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with
pruninghooks, and take away [and] cut down the branches.
{18:6} They shall be left together unto the fowls of the
mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall
summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall
winter upon them.
{18:7} In that time shall the present be brought unto the
LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a
people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted
out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have
spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the
mount Zion.
19 {19:1} The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth
upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols
of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of
Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. {19:2} And I will set the
Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every
one against his brother, and every one against his
neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against
kingdom. {19:3} And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the
midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and
they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them
that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. {19:4} And
the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord;
and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the
LORD of hosts. {19:5} And the waters shall fail from the
sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. {19:6} And
they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of
defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags
shall wither. {19:7} The paper reeds by the brooks, by the
mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks,
shall wither, be driven away, and be no [more.] {19:8} The
fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the
brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the
waters shall languish. {19:9} Moreover they that work in
fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be
confounded. {19:10} And they shall be broken in the
purposes thereof, all that make sluices [and] ponds for
fish. {19:11} Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the
counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become
brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the
wise, the son of ancient kings? {19:12} Where [are] they?
where [are] thy wise [men?] and let them tell thee now, and
let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon
Egypt. {19:13} The princes of Zoan are become fools, the
princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced
Egypt, [even they that are] the stay of the tribes thereof.
{19:14} The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the
midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every
work thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
{19:15} Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which
the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. {19:16} In that day
shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and
fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of
hosts, which he shaketh over it. {19:17} And the land of
Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh
mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the
counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined
against it.
{19:18} In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt
speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of
hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. {19:19}
In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst
of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the
LORD. {19:20} And it shall be for a sign and for a witness
unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall
cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall
send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver
them. {19:21} And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and
the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall
do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto
the LORD, and perform [it.] {19:22} And the LORD shall
smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal [it:] and they shall
return [even] to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of
them, and shall heal them.
{19:23} In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt
to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the
Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with
the Assyrians. {19:24} In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst
of the land: {19:25} Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless,
saying, Blessed [be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work
of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
20 {20:1} In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when
Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against
Ashdod, and took it; {20:2} At the same time spake the
LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the
sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy
foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. {20:3}
And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked
naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon
Egypt and upon Ethiopia; {20:4} So shall the king of
Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the
Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot,
even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of
Egypt. {20:5} And they shall be afraid and ashamed of
Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. {20:6}
And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold,
such [is] our expectation, whither we flee for help to be
delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we
escape?
21 {21:1} The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirl-
winds in the south pass through; [so] it cometh from the
desert, from a terrible land. {21:2} A grievous vision is declared
unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and
the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all
the sighing thereof have I made to cease. {21:3} Therefore
are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon
me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed
down at the hearing [of it;] I was dismayed at the seeing [of
it.] {21:4} My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the
night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
{21:5} Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat,
drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield. {21:6} For
thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let
him declare what he seeth. {21:7} And he saw a chariot
[with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, [and] a
chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much
heed: {21:8} And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand
continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am
set in my ward whole nights: {21:9} And, behold, here
cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And
he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all
the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the
ground. {21:10} O my threshing, and the corn of my floor:
that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, have I declared unto you.
{21:11} The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of
Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the
night? {21:12} The watchman said, The morning cometh,
and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return,
come.
{21:13} The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia
shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
{21:14} The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water
to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him
that fled. {21:15} For they fled from the swords, from the
drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the
grievousness of war. {21:16} For thus hath the Lord said
unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an
hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: {21:17} And
the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the
children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God
of Israel hath spoken [it.]
22 {22:1} The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth
thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
{22:2} Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous
city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead
in battle. {22:3} All thy rulers are fled together, they are
bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound
together, [which] have fled from far. {22:4} Therefore said
I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to
comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my
people. {22:5} For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading
down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the
valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to
the mountains. {22:6} And Elam bare the quiver with
chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the
shield. {22:7} And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest
valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set
themselves in array at the gate.
{22:8} And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou
didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the
forest. {22:9} Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of
David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the
waters of the lower pool. {22:10} And ye have numbered
the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken
down to fortify the wall. {22:11} Ye made also a ditch
between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye
have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect
unto him that fashioned it long ago. {22:12} And in that day
did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to
mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
{22:13} And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and
killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we shall die. {22:14} And it was
revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this
iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the
Lord GOD of hosts.
{22:15} Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee
unto this treasurer, [even] unto Shebna, which [is] over the
house, [and say,] {22:16} What hast thou here? and whom
hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre
here, [as] he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, [and]
that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? {22:17}
Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty
captivity, and will surely cover thee. {22:18} He will surely
violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a large country:
there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall
be] the shame of thy lord’s house. {22:19} And I will drive
thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee
down.
{22:20} And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will
call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: {22:21} And I
will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy
girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and
he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to
the house of Judah. {22:22} And the key of the house of
David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and
none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
{22:23} And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and
he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
{22:24} And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his
father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of
small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the
vessels of flagons. {22:25} In that day, saith the LORD of
hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be
removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that
[was] upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken
[it.]
23 {23:1} The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish;
for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in:
from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. {23:2} Be
still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of
Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. {23:3} And
by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river,
[is] her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. {23:4} Be
thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, [even] the
strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth
children, neither do I nourish up young men, [nor] bring up
virgins. {23:5} As at the report concerning Egypt, [so] shall
they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. {23:6} Pass ye
over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. {23:7} [Is]
this your joyous [city,] whose antiquity [is] of ancient days?
her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. {23:8} Who
hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning [city,]
whose merchants [are] princes, whose traffickers [are] the
honourable of the earth? {23:9} The LORD of hosts hath
purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, [and] to bring into
contempt all the honourable of the earth. {23:10} Pass
through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: [there
is] no more strength. {23:11} He stretched out his hand over
the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a
commandment against the merchant [city,] to destroy the
strong holds thereof. {23:12} And he said, Thou shalt no
more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon:
arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no
rest. {23:13} Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people
was not, [til] the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in
the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised
up the palaces thereof; [and] he brought it to ruin. {23:14}
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
{23:15} And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre
shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of
one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an
harlot. {23:16} Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot
that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many
songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
{23:17} And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy
years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to
her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms
of the world upon the face of the earth. {23:18} And her
merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it
shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall
be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently,
and for durable clothing.
24 {24:1} Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and
maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth
abroad the inhabitants thereof. {24:2} And it shall be, as
with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so
with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as
with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with
the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of
usury to him. {24:3} The land shall be utterly emptied, and
utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. {24:4}
The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world
languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the
earth do languish. {24:5} The earth also is defiled under the
inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the
laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting
covenant. {24:6} Therefore hath the curse devoured the
earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the
inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. {24:7}
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the
merryhearted do sigh. {24:8} The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,
the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp
ceaseth. {24:9} They shall not drink wine with a song;
strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. {24:10}
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut
up, that no man may come in. {24:11} [There is] a crying
for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the
land is gone. {24:12} In the city is left desolation, and the
gate is smitten with destruction.
{24:13} When thus it shall be in the midst of the land
among the people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive
tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
{24:14} They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the
majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
{24:15} Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, [even]
the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
{24:16} From the uttermost part of the earth have we
heard songs, [even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My
leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers
have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have
dealt very treacherously. {24:17} Fear, and the pit, and the
snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. {24:18}
And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the
noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up
out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the
windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the
earth do shake. {24:19} The earth is utterly broken down,
the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
{24:20} The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and
shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression
thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise
again. {24:21} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that]
the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are]
on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. {24:22}
And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are
gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited. {24:23} Then the
moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the
LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem,
and before his ancients gloriously.
25 {25:1} O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee, I
will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful [things;
thy] counsels of old [are] faithfulness [and] truth. {25:2}
For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a
ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be
built. {25:3} Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee,
the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. {25:4} For
thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy
in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the
heat, when the blast of the terrible ones [is] as a storm
[against] the wall. {25:5} Thou shalt bring down the noise
of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; [even] the heat with
the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall
be brought low.
{25:6} And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts [AV]
make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines
on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees
well refined. {25:7} And he will destroy in this mountain
the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail
that is spread over all nations. {25:8} He will swallow up
death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears
from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it.]
{25:9} And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our
God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is]
the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation. {25:10} For in this mountain shall
the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden
down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the
dunghill. {25:11} And he shall spread forth his hands in the
midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his
hands] to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together
with the spoils of their hands. {25:12} And the fortress of
the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, [and]
bring to the ground, [even] to the dust.
26 {26:1} In that day shall this song be sung in the land of
Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will [God] appoint
[for] walls and bulwarks. {26:2} Open ye the gates, that the
righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
{26:3} Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind
[is] stayed [on thee:] because he trusteth in thee. {26:4}
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH
[is] everlasting strength:
{26:5} For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the
lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, [even] to the
ground; he bringeth it [even] to the dust. {26:6} The foot
shall tread it down, [even] the feet of the poor, [and] the
steps of the needy. {26:7} The way of the just [is]
uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the
just. {26:8} Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD,
have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul [is] to thy
name, and to the remembrance of thee. {26:9} With my
soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit
within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments
[are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn
righteousness. {26:10} Let favour be shewed to the wicked,
[yet] will he not learn righteousness: in the land of
uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the
majesty of the LORD. {26:11} LORD, [when] thy hand is
lifted up, they will not see: [but] they shall see, and be
ashamed for [their] envy at the people; yea, the fire of
thine enemies shall devour them.
{26:12} LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou
also hast wrought all our works in us. {26:13} O LORD our
God, [other] lords besides thee have had dominion over us:
[but] by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
{26:14} [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are]
deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and
destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
{26:15} Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast
increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed
[it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth. {26:16} LORD, in
trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer
[when] thy chastening [was] upon them. {26:17} Like as a
woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her
delivery, is in pain, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we
been in thy sight, O LORD. {26:18} We have been with
child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought
forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the
earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
{26:19} Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead [AV]
body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust:
for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast
out the dead.
{26:20} Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers,
and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a
little moment, until the indignation be overpast. {26:21}
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish
the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
27 {27:1} In that day the LORD with his sore and great
and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent,
even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the
dragon that [is] in the sea. {27:2} In that day sing ye unto
her, A vineyard of red wine. {27:3} I the LORD do keep it;
I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it
night and day. {27:4} Fury [is] not in me: who would set
the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go
through them, I would burn them together. {27:5} Or let
him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace
with me; [and] he shall make peace with me. {27:6} He
shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall
blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
{27:7} Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote
him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that
are slain by him? {27:8} In measure, when it shooteth forth,
thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the
day of the east wind. {27:9} By this therefore shall the
iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take
away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as
chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images
shall not stand up. {27:10} Yet the defenced city [shall be]
desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a
wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie
down, and consume the branches thereof. {27:11} When the
boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the
women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of
no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have
mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no
favour.
{27:12} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the
LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the
stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye
children of Israel. {27:13} And it shall come to pass in that
day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and
the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the
LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
28 {28:1} Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of
Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which
[are] on the head of the fat valleys of them that are
overcome with wine! {28:2} Behold, the Lord hath a
mighty and strong one, [which] as a tempest of hail [and] a
destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing,
shall cast down to the earth with the hand. {28:3} The
crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden
under feet: {28:4} And the glorious beauty, which is on the
head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the
hasty fruit before the summer; which [when] he that looketh
upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
{28:5} In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown
of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his
people, {28:6} And for a spirit of judgment to him that
sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the
battle to the gate.
{28:7} But they also have erred through wine, and
through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the
prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed
up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink;
they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment. {28:8} For
all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is]
no place [clean.]
{28:9} Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall
he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned
from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. {28:10} For
precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
{28:11} For with stammering lips and another tongue will
he speak to this people. {28:12} To whom he said, This [is]
the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and
this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear. {28:13} But
the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a
little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall
backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
{28:14} Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye
scornful men, that rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem.
{28:15} Because ye have said, We have made a covenant
with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the
overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come
unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under
falsehood have we hid ourselves:
{28:16} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay
in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious
corner [stone,] a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not
make haste. {28:17} Judgment also will I lay to the line,
and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep
away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the
hiding place.
{28:18} And your covenant with death shall be
disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand;
when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye
shall be trodden down by it. {28:19} From the time that it
goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it
pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation
only to understand the report. {28:20} For the bed is shorter
than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it:] and the
covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it.]
{28:21} For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim,
he shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may
do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his
strange act. {28:22} Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest
your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord
GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the
whole earth.
{28:23} Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and
hear my speech. {28:24} Doth the plowman plow all day to
sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
{28:25} When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he
not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast
in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and rie in
their place? {28:26} For his God doth instruct him to
discretion, [and] doth teach him. {28:27} For the fitches are
not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are
beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. {28:28}
Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be
threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor
bruise it [with] his horsemen. {28:29} This also cometh
forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is wonderful in
counsel, [and] excellent in working.
29 {29:1} Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David
dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. {29:2}
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. {29:3} And I will
camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against
thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. {29:4}
And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of
the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and
thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of
the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
{29:5} Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like
small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be]
as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant
suddenly. {29:6} Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of
hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,
with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
{29:7} And the multitude of all the nations that fight
against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her
munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a
night vision. {29:8} It shall even be as when an hungry
[man] dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and
his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and,
behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, [he is]
faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all
the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. {29:9} Stay
yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with
strong drink. {29:10} For the LORD hath poured out upon
you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the
prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. {29:11}
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I
cannot; for it [is] sealed: {29:12} And the book is delivered
to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and
he saith, I am not learned.
{29:13} Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this
people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips
do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me,
and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
{29:14} Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous
work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men]
shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men]
shall be hid. {29:15} Woe unto them that seek deep to hide
their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the
dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
{29:16} Surely your turning of things upside down shall be
esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him
that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say
of him that framed it, He had no understanding? {29:17}
[Is] it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be
turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be
esteemed as a forest?
{29:18} And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of
the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of
obscurity, and out of darkness. {29:19} The meek also shall
increase [their] joy in the LORD, and the poor among men
shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. {29:20} For the
terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
{29:21} That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a
snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the
just for a thing of nought. {29:22} Therefore thus saith the
LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of
Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his
face now wax pale. {29:23} But when he seeth his children,
the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall
sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and
shall fear the God of Israel. {29:24} They also that erred in
spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured
shall learn doctrine.
30 {30:1} Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD,
that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a
covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
{30:2} That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not
asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength
of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! {30:3}
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and
the trust in the shadow of Egypt [your] confusion. {30:4}
For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to
Hanes. {30:5} They were all ashamed of a people [that]
could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a
shame, and also a reproach. {30:6} The burden of the beasts
of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from
whence [come] the young and old lion, the viper and fiery
flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the
shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the
bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall not profit [them.]
{30:7} For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no
purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their
strength [is] to sit still.
{30:8} Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it
in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and
ever: {30:9} That this [is] a rebellious people, lying
children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:
{30:10} Which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us
smooth things, prophesy deceits: {30:11} Get you out of the
way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel
to cease from before us. {30:12} Wherefore thus saith the
Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust
in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: {30:13}
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh
suddenly at an instant. {30:14} And he shall break it as the
breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he
shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the
bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take
water [withal] out of the pit. {30:15} For thus saith the Lord
GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye
be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your
strength: and ye would not. {30:16} But ye said, No; for we
will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will
ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be
swift. {30:17} One thousand [shall flee] at the rebuke of
one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a
beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an
hill.
{30:18} And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may
be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that
he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD [is] a God of
judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him. {30:19}
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt
weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the
voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
{30:20} And [though] the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy
teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes
shall see thy teachers: {30:21} And thine ears shall hear a
word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it,
when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
{30:22} Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven
images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of
gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou
shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. {30:23} Then shall he give
the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal;
and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and
plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
{30:24} The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the
ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been
winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. {30:25} And
there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every
high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the
great slaughter, when the towers fall. {30:26} Moreover the
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven
days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his
people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
{30:27} Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far,
burning [with] his anger, and the burden [thereof is] heavy:
his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a
devouring fire: {30:28} And his breath, as an overflowing
stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the
nations with the sieve of vanity: and [there shall be] a bridle
in the jaws of the people, causing [them] to err. {30:29} Ye
shall have a song, as in the night [when] a holy solemnity is
kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe
to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One
of Israel. {30:30} And the LORD shall cause his glorious
voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his
arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the
flame of a devouring fire, [with] scattering, and tempest,
and hailstones. {30:31} For through the voice of the LORD
shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [which] smote with a
rod. {30:32} And [in] every place where the grounded staff
shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, [it] shall be
with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he
fight with it. {30:33} For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea,
for the king it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and]
large: the pile thereof [is] fire and much wood; the breath of
the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
31 {31:1} Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and
stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because [they are]
many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but
they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the
LORD! {31:2} Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil,
and will not call back his words: but will arise against the
house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that
work iniquity. {31:3} Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not
God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD
shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and
he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail
together. {31:4} For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me,
Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey,
when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him,
[he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for
the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to
fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. {31:5} As
birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver [it; and] passing over he will
preserve [it.]
{31:6} Turn ye unto [him from] whom the children of
Israel have deeply revolted. {31:7} For in that day every
man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which your own hands have made unto you [for] a sin.
{31:8} Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of
a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall
devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young
men shall be discomfited. {31:9} And he shall pass over to
his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the
ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his
furnace in Jerusalem.
32 {32:1} Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in judgment. {32:2} And a man shall be as
an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the
tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a
great rock in a weary land. {32:3} And the eyes of them that
see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall
hearken. {32:4} The heart also of the rash shall understand
knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready
to speak plainly. {32:5} The vile person shall be no more
called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful. {32:6}
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will
work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error
against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry,
and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. {32:7} The
instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked
devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the
needy speaketh right. {32:8} But the liberal deviseth liberal
things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
{32:9} Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice,
ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. {32:10}
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless
women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not
come. {32:11} Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be
troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare,
and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins. {32:12} They shall
lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful
vine. {32:13} Upon the land of my people shall come up
thorns [and] briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the
joyous city: {32:14} Because the palaces shall be forsaken;
the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers
shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of
flocks; {32:15} Until the spirit be poured upon us from on
high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field be counted for a forest. {32:16} Then judgment shall
dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the
fruitful field. {32:17} And the work of righteousness shall
be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and
assurance for ever. {32:18} And my people shall dwell in a
peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet
resting places; {32:19} When it shall hail, coming down on
the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. {32:20}
Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth
[thither] the feet of the ox and the ass.
33 {33:1} Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou [wast] not
spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not
treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou
shalt be spoiled; [and] when thou shalt make an end to deal
treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
{33:2} O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for
thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in
the time of trouble. {33:3} At the noise of the tumult the
people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were
scattered. {33:4} And your spoil shall be gathered [like] the
gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of
locusts shall he run upon them. {33:5} The LORD is
exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with
judgment and righteousness. {33:6} And wisdom and
knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, [and] strength
of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure. {33:7}
Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the
ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. {33:8} The
highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath
broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he
regardeth no man. {33:9} The earth mourneth [and]
languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: Sharon
is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their
fruits.] {33:10} Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I
be exalted; now will I lift up myself. {33:11} Ye shall
conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath,
[as] fire, shall devour you. {33:12} And the people shall be
as the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be
burned in the fire.
{33:13} Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done; and,
ye [that are] near, acknowledge my might. {33:14} The
sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring
fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
{33:15} He that walketh righteously, and speaketh
uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that
shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his
ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from
seeing evil; {33:16} He shall dwell on high: his place of
defence [shall be] the munitions of rocks: bread shall be
given him; his waters [shall be] sure. {33:17} Thine eyes
shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land
that is very far off. {33:18} Thine heart shall meditate
terror. Where [is] the scribe? where [is] the receiver? where
[is] he that counted the towers? {33:19} Thou shalt not see
a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst
perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not
understand. {33:20} Look upon Zion, the city of our
solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet
habitation, a tabernacle [that] shall not be taken down; not
one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither
shall any of the cords thereof be broken. {33:21} But there
the glorious LORD [will be] unto us a place of broad rivers
[and] streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither
shall gallant ship pass thereby. {33:22} For the LORD [is]
our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our
king; he will save us. {33:23} Thy tacklings are loosed;
they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not
spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the
lame take the prey. {33:24} And the inhabitant shall not
say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be]
forgiven [their] iniquity.
34 {34:1} Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye
people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world,
and all things that come forth of it. {34:2} For the
indignation of the LORD [is] upon all nations, and [his]
fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them,
he hath delivered them to the slaughter. {34:3} Their slain
also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of
their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their
blood. {34:4} And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all
their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the
vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree. {34:5} For my
sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down
upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to
judgment. {34:6} The sword of the LORD is filled with
blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of
lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the
LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in
the land of Idumea. {34:7} And the unicorns shall come
down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their
land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat
with fatness. {34:8} For [it is] the day of the LORD’S
vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the
controversy of Zion. {34:9} And the streams thereof shall
be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and
the land thereof shall become burning pitch. {34:10} It shall
not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go
up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever. {34:11} But the
cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and
the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it
the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. {34:12}
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
[shall be] there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
{34:13} And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles
and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an
habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls. {34:14} The
wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts
of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the
screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place
of rest. {34:15} There shall the great owl make her nest, and
lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the
vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
{34:16} Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read:
no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my
mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered
them. {34:17} And he hath cast the lot for them, and his
hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it
for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell
therein.
35 {35:1} The wilderness and the solitary place shall be
glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as
the rose. {35:2} It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even
with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given
unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see
the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellency of our God.
{35:3} Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the
feeble knees. {35:4} Say to them [that are] of a fearful
heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come
[with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will
come and save you. {35:5} Then the eyes of the blind shall
be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
{35:6} Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters
break out, and streams in the desert. {35:7} And the
parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land
springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each
lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes. {35:8} And an
highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The
way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it
[shall be] for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall
not err [therein.] {35:9} No lion shall be there, nor [any]
ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found
there; but the redeemed shall walk [there:] {35:10} And the
ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with
songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain
joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
36 {36:1} Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of
king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up
against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
{36:2} And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from
Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army.
And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the
highway of the fuller’s field. {36:3} Then came forth unto
him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
{36:4} And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria,
What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? {36:5} I say,
[sayest thou,] (but [they are but] vain words) [I have]
counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust,
that thou rebellest against me? {36:6} Lo, thou trustest in
the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man
lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh
king of Egypt to all that trust in him. {36:7} But if thou say
to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose
high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this
altar? {36:8} Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my
master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two
thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders
upon them. {36:9} How then wilt thou turn away the face of
one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy
trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? {36:10} And
am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land,
and destroy it.
{36:11} Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the
Syrian language; for we understand [it:] and speak not to us
in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that [are] on
the wall.
{36:12} But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to
thy master and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not
[sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat
their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? {36:13}
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the
Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great
king, the king of Assyria. {36:14} Thus saith the king, Let
not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver
you. {36:15} Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the
LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city
shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
{36:16} Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of
Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and
come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every
one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his
own cistern; {36:17} Until I come and take you away to a
land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of
bread and vineyards. {36:18} [Beware] lest Hezekiah
persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any
of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand
of the king of Assyria? {36:19} Where [are] the gods of
Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim?
and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? {36:20}
Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have
delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? {36:21} But they held
their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s
commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
{36:22} Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that
[was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah,
the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their]
clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
37 {37:1} And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard
[it,] that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. {37:2}
And he sent Eliakim, who [was] over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with
sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. {37:3}
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day [is]
a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the
children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to
bring forth. {37:4} It may be the LORD thy God will hear
the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his
master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will
reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard:
wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant that is left.
{37:5} So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
{37:6} And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto
your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the
words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the
king of Assyria have blasphemed me. {37:7} Behold, I will
send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.
{37:8} So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he
was departed from Lachish. {37:9} And he heard say
concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to
make war with thee. And when he heard [it,] he sent
messengers to Hezekiah, saying, {37:10} Thus shall ye
speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God,
in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall
not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. {37:11}
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou
be delivered? {37:12} Have the gods of the nations
delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as]
Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden
which [were] in Telassar? {37:13} Where [is] the king of
Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
{37:14} And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand
of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto
the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
{37:15} And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
{37:16} O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest
[between] the cherubims, thou [art] the God, [even] thou
alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made
heaven and earth. {37:17} Incline thine ear, O LORD, and
hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the
words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the
living God. {37:18} Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria
have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, {37:19}
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they [were] no
gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them. {37:20} Now therefore,
O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD,
[even] thou only.
{37:21} Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou
hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
{37:22} This [is] the word which the LORD hath spoken
concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath
despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of
Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. {37:23} Whom hast
thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast
thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?
[even] against the Holy One of Israel. {37:24} By thy
servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By
the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down
the tall cedars thereof, [and] the choice fir trees thereof: and
I will enter into the height of his border, [and] the forest of
his Carmel. {37:25} I have digged, and drunk water; and
with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the
besieged places. {37:26} Hast thou not heard long ago,
[how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have
formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest
be to lay waste defenced cities [into] ruinous heaps. {37:27}
Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the
field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the
housetops, and [as corn] blasted before it be grown up.
{37:28} But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy rage against me. {37:29} Because thy
rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears,
therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in
thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou
camest. {37:30} And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, Ye
shall eat [this] year such as groweth of itself; and the second
year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year
sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
thereof. {37:31} And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear
fruit upward: {37:32} For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of
the LORD of hosts shall do this. {37:33} Therefore thus
saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall
not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there nor come
before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. {37:34} By
the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall
not come into this city, saith the LORD. {37:35} For I will
defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my
servant David’s sake. {37:36} Then the angel of the LORD
went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a
hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they
arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead
corpses.
{37:37} So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and
went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. {37:38} And it
came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons
smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of
Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
38 {38:1} In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said
unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order:
for thou shalt die, and not live. {38:2} Then Hezekiah
turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
{38:3} And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee,
how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect
heart, and have done [that which is] good in thy sight. And
Hezekiah wept sore.
{38:4} Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah,
saying, {38:5} Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the
LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy
prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy
days fifteen years. {38:6} And I will deliver thee and this
city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend
this city. {38:7} And this [shall be] a sign unto thee from
the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath
spoken; {38:8} Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the
degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten
degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by
which degrees it was gone down.
{38:9} The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he
had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: {38:10} I
said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of
the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. {38:11}
I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the
land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the
inhabitants of the world. {38:12} Mine age is departed, and
is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like
a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness:
from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
{38:13} I reckoned till morning, [that,] as a lion, so will he
break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make
an end of me. {38:14} Like a crane [or] a swallow, so did I
chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking]
upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
{38:15} What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and
himself hath done [it:] I shall go softly all my years in the
bitterness of my soul. {38:16} O Lord, by these [things
men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so
wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. {38:17} Behold,
for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my
soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast
cast all my sins behind thy back. {38:18} For the grave
cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that
go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. {38:19} The
living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the
father to the children shall make known thy truth. {38:20}
The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing
my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life
in the house of the LORD. {38:21} For Isaiah had said, Let
them take a lump of figs, and lay [it] for a plaister upon the
boil, and he shall recover. {38:22} Hezekiah also had said,
What [is] the sign that I shall go up to the house of the
LORD?
39 {39:1} At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of
Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to
Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was
recovered. {39:2} And Hezekiah was glad of them, and
shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver,
and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and
all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his
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treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his
dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
{39:3} Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah,
and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence
came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come
from a far country unto me, [even] from Babylon. {39:4}
Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And
Hezekiah answered, All that [is] in mine house have they
seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
shewed them. {39:5} Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear
the word of the LORD of hosts: {39:6} Behold, the days
come, that all that [is] in thine house, and [that] which thy
fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to
Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. {39:7} And
of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt
beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon. {39:8} Then said Hezekiah
to Isaiah, Good [is] the word of the LORD which thou hast
spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and
truth in my days.
40 {40:1} Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your
God. {40:2} Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry
unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity
is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand
double for all her sins.
{40:3} The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the de-
sert a highway for our God. {40:4} Every valley shall be
exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and
the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places
plain: {40:5} And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the
LORD hath spoken [it.] {40:6} The voice said, Cry. And he
said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the
goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field: {40:7} The
grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the breath of the
LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass. {40:8}
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our
God shall stand for ever.
{40:9} O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into
the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings,
lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say
unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! {40:10} Behold,
the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand,] and his arm
shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his
work before him. {40:11} He shall feed his flock like a
shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry
[them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are
with young.
{40:12} Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of
his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and
comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
{40:13} Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or
[being] his counsellor hath taught him? {40:14} With whom
took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him
in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and
shewed to him the way of understanding? {40:15} Behold,
the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as
the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles
as a very little thing. {40:16} And Lebanon [is] not
sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a
burnt offering. {40:17} All nations before him [are] as
nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and
vanity.
{40:18} To whom then will ye liken God? or what
likeness will ye compare unto him? {40:19} The workman
melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over
with gold, and casteth silver chains. {40:20} He that [is] so
impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that]
will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to
prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved. {40:21}
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been
told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from
the foundations of the earth? {40:22} [It is] he that sitteth
upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are]
as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,
and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: {40:23} That
bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the
earth as vanity. {40:24} Yea, they shall not be planted; yea,
they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in
the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall
wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
{40:25} To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?
saith the Holy One. {40:26} Lift up your eyes on high, and
behold who hath created these [things,] that bringeth out
their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the
greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not
one faileth. {40:27} Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and
speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my
judgment is passed over from my God?
{40:28} Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that]
the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of
the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no
searching of his understanding. {40:29} He giveth power to
the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth
strength. {40:30} Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
and the young men shall utterly fall: {40:31} But they that
wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
41 {41:1} Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the
people renew [their] strength: let them come near; then let
them speak: let us come near together to judgment. {41:2}
Who raised up the righteous [man] from the east, called him
to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made [him]
rule over kings? he gave [them] as the dust to his sword,
[and] as driven stubble to his bow. {41:3} He pursued them,
[and] passed safely; [even] by the way [that] he had not
gone with his feet. {41:4} Who hath wrought and done [it,]
calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the
first, and with the last; I [am] he. {41:5} The isles saw [it,]
and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and
came. {41:6} They helped every one his neighbour; and
[every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage. {41:7}
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that
smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil,
saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with
nails, [that] it should not be moved. {41:8} But thou, Israel,
[art] my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend. {41:9} [Thou] whom I have taken
from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief
men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou [art] my servant; I
have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
{41:10} Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not
dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I
will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of
my righteousness. {41:11} Behold, all they that were
incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded:
they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall
perish. {41:12} Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find
them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war
against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
{41:13} For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand,
saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. {41:14} Fear
not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help
thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel. {41:15} Behold, I will make thee a new sharp
threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the
mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills
as chaff. {41:16} Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall
carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and
thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy
One of Israel. {41:17} [When] the poor and needy seek
water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for
thirst, I the LORD will hear them, [I[ the God of Israel will
not forsake them. {41:18} I will open rivers in high places,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the
wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of
water. {41:19} I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the
shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the
desert the fir tree, [and] the pine, and the box tree together:
{41:20} That they may see, and know, and consider, and
understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done
this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. {41:21}
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your
strong [reasons,] saith the King of Jacob. {41:22} Let them
bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them
shew the former things, what they [be,] that we may
consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare
us things for to come. {41:23} Shew the things that are to
come hereafter, that we may know that ye [are] gods: yea,
do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold
[it] together. {41:24} Behold, ye [are] of nothing, and your
work of nought: an abomination [is he that] chooseth you.
{41:25} I have raised up [one] from the north, and he shall
come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my
name: and he shall come upon princes as [upon] morter, and
as the potter treadeth clay. {41:26} Who hath declared from
the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we
may say, [He is] righteous? yea, [there is] none that
sheweth, yea, [there is] none that declareth, yea, [there is]
none that heareth your words. {41:27} The first [shall say]
to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem
one that bringeth good tidings. {41:28} For I beheld, and
[there was] no man; even among them, and [there was] no
counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a
word. {41:29} Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works
[are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.
42 {42:1} Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,
[in whom] my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him:
he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. {42:2} He
shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in
the street. {42:3} A bruised reed shall he not break, and the
smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth
judgment unto truth. {42:4} He shall not fail nor be
discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the
isles shall wait for his law.
{42:5} Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the
heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the
earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath
unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
{42:6} I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and
will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; {42:7}
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the
prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison
house. {42:8} I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my
glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven
images. {42:9} Behold, the former things are come to pass,
and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell
you of them. {42:10} Sing unto the LORD a new song,
[and] his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down
to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the
inhabitants thereof. {42:11} Let the wilderness and the
cities thereof lift up [their voice,] the villages [that] Kedar
doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them
shout from the top of the mountains. {42:12} Let them give
glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
{42:13} The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall
stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he
shall prevail against his enemies. {42:14} I have long time
holden my peace; I have been still, [and] refrained myself:
[now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and
devour at once. {42:15} I will make waste mountains and
hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers
islands, and I will dry up the pools. {42:16} And I will
bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead
them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make
darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.
These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
{42:17} They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly
ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten
images, Ye [are] our gods. {42:18} Hear, ye deaf; and look,
ye blind, that ye may see. {42:19} Who [is] blind, but my
servant? or deaf, as my messenger [that] I sent? who [is]
blind as [he that is] perfect, and blind as the LORD’S
servant? {42:20} Seeing many things, but thou observest
not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. {42:21} The
LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will
magnify the law, and make [it] honourable. {42:22} But this
[is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of them
snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are
for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith,
Restore. {42:23} Who among you will give ear to this?
[who] will hearken and hear for the time to come? {42:24}
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did
not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they
would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto
his law. {42:25} Therefore he hath poured upon him the
fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set
him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him,
yet he laid [it] not to heart.
43 {43:1} But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O
Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have
redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art]
mine. {43:2} When thou passest through the waters, I [will
be] with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not
overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou
shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon
thee. {43:3} For I [am] the LORD thy God, the Holy One of
Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt [for] thy ransom, Ethiopia
and Seba for thee. {43:4} Since thou wast precious in my
sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee:
therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
{43:5} Fear not: for I [am] with thee: I will bring thy seed
from the east, and gather thee from the west; {43:6} I will
say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back:
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of
the earth; {43:7} [Even] every one that is called by my
name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed
him; yea, I have made him.
{43:8} Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and
the deaf that have ears. {43:9} Let all the nations be
gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who
among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let
them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified:
or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth. {43:10} Ye [are] my
witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand
that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither
shall there be after me. {43:11} I, [even] I, [am] the LORD;
and beside me [there is] no saviour. {43:12} I have
declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there
was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my
witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God. {43:13} Yea,
before the day [was] I [am] he; and [there is] none that can
deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
{43:14} Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy
One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and
have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans,
whose cry [is] in the ships. {43:15} I [am] the LORD, your
Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. {43:16} Thus
saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path
in the mighty waters; {43:17} Which bringeth forth the
chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie
down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are
quenched as tow.
{43:18} Remember ye not the former things, neither
consider the things of old. {43:19} Behold, I will do a new
thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will
even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the
desert. {43:20} The beast of the field shall honour me, the
dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the
wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
people, my chosen. {43:21} This people have I formed for
myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
{43:22} But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but
thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. {43:23} Thou hast not
brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither
hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused
thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with
incense. {43:24} Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with
money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy
sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins,
thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. {43:25} I, [even]
I, [am] he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
sake, and will not remember thy sins. {43:26} Put me in
remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified. {43:27} Thy first father hath sinned,
and thy teachers have transgressed against me. {43:28}
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and
have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
44 {44:1} Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel,
whom I have chosen: {44:2} Thus saith the LORD that
made thee, and formed thee from the womb, [which] will
help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun,
whom I have chosen. {44:3} For I will pour water upon him
that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour
my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring: {44:4} And they shall spring up as among the
grass, as willows by the water courses. {44:5} One shall
say, I [am] the LORD’S; and another shall call [himself] by
the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe [with] his
hand unto the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of
Israel. {44:6} Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and
his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am]
the last; and beside me [there is] no God. {44:7} And who,
as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me,
since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are
coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. {44:8}
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that
time, and have declared [it?] ye [are] even my witnesses. Is
there a God beside me? yea, [there is] no God; I know not
[any.]
{44:9} They that make a graven image [are] all of them
vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they
[are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they
may be ashamed. {44:10} Who hath formed a god, or
molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
{44:11} Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the
workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered
together, let them stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they
shall be ashamed together. {44:12} The smith with the
tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with
hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea,
he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water,
and is faint. {44:13} The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule;
he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he
marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the
figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it
may remain in the house. {44:14} He heweth him down
cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he
strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he
planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish [it.] {44:15} Then
shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and
warm himself; yea, he kindleth [it,] and baketh bread; yea,
he maketh a god, and worshippeth [it;] he maketh it a
graven image, and falleth down thereto. {44:16} He burneth
part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he
roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth [himself,]
and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: {44:17}
And the residue thereof he maketh a god, [even] his graven
image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth [it,] and
prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou [art] my god.
{44:18} They have not known nor understood: for he hath
shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that
they cannot understand. {44:19} And none considereth in
his heart, neither [is there] knowledge nor understanding to
say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have
baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh,
and eaten [it:] and shall I make the residue thereof an
abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
{44:20} He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned
him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, [Is there]
not a lie in my right hand?
{44:21} Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou
[art] my servant: I have formed thee; thou [art] my servant:
O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. {44:22} I have
blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
{44:23} Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done [it:]
shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing,
ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the
LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
{44:24} Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that
formed thee from the womb, I [am] the LORD that maketh
all [things;] that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that
spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; {44:25} That
frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad;
that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their
knowledge foolish; {44:26} That confirmeth the word of his
servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that
saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities
of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed
places thereof: {44:27} That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I
will dry up thy rivers: {44:28} That saith of Cyrus, [He is]
my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even
saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple,
Thy foundation shall be laid.
45 {45:1} Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus,
whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before
him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him
the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; {45:2}
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight:
I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder
the bars of iron: {45:3} And I will give thee the treasures of
darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou
mayest know that I, the LORD, which call [thee] by thy
name, [am] the God of Israel. {45:4} For Jacob my
servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee
by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not
known me.
{45:5} I [am] the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there
is] no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not
known me: {45:6} That they may know from the rising of
the sun, and from the west, that [there is] none beside me. I
[am] the LORD, and [there is] none else. {45:7} I form the
light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I
the LORD do all these [things.] {45:8} Drop down, ye
heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth
salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the
LORD have created it. {45:9} Woe unto him that striveth
with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the
potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that
fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no
hands? {45:10} Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father,
What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou
brought forth? {45:11} Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One
of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come
concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands
command ye me. {45:12} I have made the earth, and
created man upon it: I, [even] my hands, have stretched out
the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. {45:13} I
have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his
ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my
captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
{45:14} Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and
merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall
come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they
shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto
thee, [saying,] Surely God [is] in thee; and [there is] none
else, [there is] no God. {45:15} Verily thou [art] a God that
hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. {45:16} They
shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they
shall go to confusion together [that are] makers of idols.
{45:17} [But] Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an
everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor
confounded world without end. {45:18} For thus saith the
LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed
the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it
not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD;
and [there is] none else. {45:19} I have not spoken in secret,
in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of
Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.
{45:20} Assemble yourselves and come; draw near
together, ye [that are] escaped of the nations: they have no
knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and
pray unto a god [that] cannot save. {45:21} Tell ye, and
bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who
hath declared this from ancient time? [who] hath told it
from that time? [have] not I the LORD? and [there is] no
God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there is]
none beside me. {45:22} Look unto me, and be ye saved, all
the ends of the earth: for I [am] God, and [there is] none
else. {45:23} I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out
of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, That
unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
{45:24} Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I
righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come;
and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
{45:25} In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified,
and shall glory.
46 {46:1} Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were
upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages [were]
heavy loaden; [they are] a burden to the weary [beast.]
{46:2} They stoop, they bow down together; they could
not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into
captivity. {46:3} Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and
all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by
me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
{46:4} And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to
hoar hairs will I carry [you:] I have made, and I will bear;
even I will carry, and will deliver [you.]
{46:5} To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal,
and compare me, that we may be like? {46:6} They lavish
gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and]
hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down,
yea, they worship. {46:7} They bear him upon the shoulder,
they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth;
from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto
him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
{46:8} Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it
again to mind, O ye transgressors. {46:9} Remember the
former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none
else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me, {46:10}
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient
times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: {46:11}
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that
executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken
[it,] I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed [it,] I will
also do it.
{46:12} Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far
from righteousness: {46:13} I bring near my righteousness;
it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I
will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
47 {47:1} Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daugh-
ter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O
daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called
tender and delicate. {47:2} Take the millstones, and grind
meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the
thigh, pass over the rivers. {47:3} Thy nakedness shall be
uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take
vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man. {47:4} [As
for] our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [is] his name, the
Holy One of Israel. {47:5} Sit thou silent, and get thee into
darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no
more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
{47:6} I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine
inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew
them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid
thy yoke.
{47:7} And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that
thou didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst
remember the latter end of it. {47:8} Therefore hear now
this, [thou that art] given to pleasures, that dwellest
carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am,] and none else
beside me; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know
the loss of children: {47:9} But these two [things] shall
come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children,
and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their
perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, [and] for the
great abundance of thine enchantments.
{47:10} For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast
said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it
hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am,]
and none else beside me.
{47:11} Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt
not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon
thee; thou shalt not be able to put if off: and desolation shall
come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know.
{47:12} Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the
multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from
thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou
mayest prevail. {47:13} Thou art wearied in the multitude
of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the
monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from
[these things] that shall come upon thee. {47:14} Behold,
they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall
not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there
shall] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it.
{47:15} Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast
laboured, [even] thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall
wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
48 {48:1} Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called
by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters
of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make
mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in
righteousness. {48:2} For they call themselves of the holy
city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The
LORD of hosts [is] his name. {48:3} I have declared the
former things from the beginning; and they went forth out
of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did [them] suddenly,
and they came to pass. {48:4} Because I knew that thou
[art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow
brass; {48:5} I have even from the beginning declared [it]
to thee; before it came to pass I shewed [it] thee: lest thou
shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven
image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
{48:6} Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare
[it?] I have shewed thee new things from this time, even
hidden things, and thou didst not know them. {48:7} They
are created now, and not from the beginning; even before
the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest
say, Behold, I knew them. {48:8} Yea, thou heardest not;
yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time [that] thine ear
was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very
treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the
womb.
{48:9} For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and
for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
{48:10} Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I
have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. {48:11} For
mine own sake, [even] for mine own sake, will I do [it:] for
how should [my name] be polluted? and I will not give my
glory unto another.
{48:12} Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;
I [am] he; I [am] the first, I also [am] the last. {48:13} Mine
hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right
hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I call unto them,
they stand up together. {48:14} All ye, assemble
yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared
these [things?] The LORD hath loved him: he will do his
pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the
Chaldeans. {48:15} I, [even] I, have spoken; yea, I have
called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way
prosperous.
{48:16} Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not
spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it
was, there [am] I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit,
hath sent me. {48:17} Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer,
the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God which
teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way [that]
thou shouldest go. {48:18} O that thou hadst hearkened to
my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and
thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: {48:19} Thy seed
also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels
like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut
off nor destroyed from before me.
{48:20} Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the
Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter
it [even] to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath
redeemed his servant Jacob. {48:21} And they thirsted not
[when] he led them through the deserts: he caused the
waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock
also, and the waters gushed out. {48:22} [There is] no
peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
49 {49:1} Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people,
from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from
the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my
name. {49:2} And he hath made my mouth like a sharp
sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made
me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; {49:3}
And said unto me, Thou [art] my servant, O Israel, in whom
I will be glorified. {49:4} Then I said, I have laboured in
vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: [yet]
surely my judgment [is] with the LORD, and my work with
my God.
{49:5} And now, saith the LORD that formed me from
the womb [to be] his servant, to bring Jacob again to him,
Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the
eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
{49:6} And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be
my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the
Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of
the earth. {49:7} Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of
Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to
him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings
shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of
the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and
he shall choose thee. {49:8} Thus saith the LORD, In an
acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation
have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee
for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause
to inherit the desolate heritages; {49:9} That thou mayest
say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that [are] in darkness,
Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their
pastures [shall be] in all high places. {49:10} They shall not
hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them:
for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the
springs of water shall he guide them. {49:11} And I will
make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be
exalted. {49:12} Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo,
these from the north and from the west; and these from the
land of Sinim.
{49:13} Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and
break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath
comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his
afflicted. {49:14} But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken
me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. {49:15} Can a woman
forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget,
yet will I not forget thee. {49:16} Behold, I have graven
thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls [are]
continually before me. {49:17} Thy children shall make
haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall
go forth of thee.
{49:18} Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all
these gather themselves together, [and] come to thee. [As] I
live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with
them all, as with an ornament, and bind them [on thee,] as a
bride [doeth.] {49:19} For thy waste and thy desolate
places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be
too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that
swallowed thee up shall be far away. {49:20} The children
which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall
say again in thine ears, The place [is] too strait for me: give
place to me that I may dwell. {49:21} Then shalt thou say in
thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost
my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to
and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left
alone; these, where [had] they [been?] {49:22} Thus saith
the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the
Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they
shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall
be carried upon [their] shoulders. {49:23} And kings shall
be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing
mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their] face
toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou
shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be
ashamed that wait for me.
{49:24} Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
lawful captive delivered? {49:25} But thus saith the LORD,
Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and
the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend
with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy
children. {49:26} And I will feed them that oppress thee
with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their
own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that
I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty
One of Jacob.
50 {50:1} Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your
mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of
my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for
your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your
transgressions is your mother put away. {50:2} Wherefore,
when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was
there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it
cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at
my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness:
their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for
thirst. {50:3} I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I
make sackcloth their covering. {50:4} The Lord GOD hath
given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how
to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he
wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to
hear as the learned.
{50:5} The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was
not rebellious, neither turned away back. {50:6} I gave my
back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off
the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
{50:7} For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I
not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be ashamed. {50:8} [He is] near
that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand
together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me.
{50:9} Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who [is] he
[that] shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a
garment; the moth shall eat them up.
{50:10} Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that
obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness,
and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD,
and stay upon his God. {50:11} Behold, all ye that kindle a
fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in
the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have
kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down
in sorrow.
51 {51:1} Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteous-
ness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence]
ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are dig-
ged. {51:2} Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah
[that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and
increased him. {51:3} For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he
will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her
wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the
LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein,
thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
{51:4} Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto
me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I
will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
{51:5} My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone
forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall
wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. {51:6} Lift
up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth
beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and
the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell
therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be
for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
{51:7} Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the
people in whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach
of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. {51:8} For
the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for
ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
{51:9} Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the
LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of
old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded the
dragon? {51:10} [Art] thou not it which hath dried the sea,
the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of
the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? {51:11}
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon
their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow
and mourning shall flee away. {51:12} I, [even] I, [am] he
that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be
afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man
[which] shall be made as grass; {51:13} And forgettest the
LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and
laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually
every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were
ready to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
{51:14} The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread
should fail. {51:15} But I [am] the LORD thy God, that
divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts
[is] his name. {51:16} And I have put my words in thy
mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand,
that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the
earth, and say unto Zion, Thou [art] my people.
{51:17} Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which
hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury;
thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and]
wrung [them] out. {51:18} [There is] none to guide her
among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither
[is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons
[that] she hath brought up. {51:19} These two [things] are
come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and
destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I
comfort thee? {51:20} Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the
head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of
the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
{51:21} Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and
drunken, but not with wine: {51:22} Thus saith thy Lord the
LORD, and thy God [that] pleadeth the cause of his people,
Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling,
[even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more
drink it again: {51:23} But I will put it into the hand of
them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow
down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as
the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
52 {52:1} Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put
on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for
henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean. {52:2} Shake thyself from
the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself
from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
{52:3} For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves
for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
{52:4} For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down
aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian
oppressed them without cause. {52:5} Now therefore, what
have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away
for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl,
saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is
blasphemed. {52:6} Therefore my people shall know my
name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I [am] he
that doth speak: behold, [it is] I.
{52:7} How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of
him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that
bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that
saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! {52:8} Thy watchmen
shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they
sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall
bring again Zion.
{52:9} Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places
of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he
hath redeemed Jerusalem. {52:10} The LORD hath made
bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the
ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
{52:11} Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence,
touch no unclean [thing;] go ye out of the midst of her; be
ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. {52:12} For ye
shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD
will go before you; and the God of Israel [will be] your
rereward.
{52:13} Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall
be exalted and extolled, and be very high. {52:14} As many
were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than
any man, and his form more than the sons of men: {52:15}
So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their
mouths at him: for [that] which had not been told them shall
they see; and [that] which they had not heard shall they
consider.
53 {53:1} Who hath believed our report? and to whom is
the arm of the LORD revealed? {53:2} For he shall grow up
before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall
see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
{53:3} He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were
[our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed
him not.
{53:4} Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. {53:5} But he [was] wounded for our
transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his
stripes we are healed. {53:6} All we like sheep have gone
astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the
LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {53:7} He
was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his
mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth. {53:8} He was taken from prison and from
judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was
cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of
my people was he stricken. {53:9} And he made his grave
with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he
had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth.
{53:10} Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath
put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering
for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days,
and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
{53:11} He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant
justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. {53:12}
Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and
he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath
poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with
the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.
54 {54:1} Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break
forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail
with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than
the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. {54:2}
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords,
and strengthen thy stakes; {54:3} For thou shalt break forth
on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit
the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
{54:4} Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be
thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for
thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not
remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. {54:5}
For thy Maker [is] thine husband; the LORD of hosts [is]
his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The
God of the whole earth shall he be called. {54:6} For the
LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in
spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy
God. {54:7} For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but
with great mercies will I gather thee. {54:8} In a little wrath
I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting
kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy
Redeemer. {54:9} For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto
me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no
more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be
wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. {54:10} For the
mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my
kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the
covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that
hath mercy on thee.
{54:11} O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not
comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and
lay thy foundations with sapphires. {54:12} And I will
make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles,
and all thy borders of pleasant stones. {54:13} And all thy
children [shall be] taught of the LORD; and great [shall be]
the peace of thy children. {54:14} In righteousness shalt
thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for
thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come
near thee. {54:15} Behold, they shall surely gather together,
[but] not by me: whosoever shall gather together against
thee shall fall for thy sake. {54:16} Behold, I have created
the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth
forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the
waster to destroy.
{54:17} No weapon that is formed against thee shall
prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the
servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me,
saith the LORD.
55 {55:1} Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat;
yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
{55:2} Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is]
not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not?
hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good,
and let your soul delight itself in fatness. {55:3} Incline
your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even]
the sure mercies of David. {55:4} Behold, I have given him
[for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the
people. {55:5} Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou
knowest not, and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto
thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of
Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
{55:6} Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye
upon him while he is near: {55:7} Let the wicked forsake
his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him;
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
{55:8} For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither
[are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. {55:9} For [as]
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
{55:10} For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from
heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and
maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the
sower, and bread to the eater: {55:11} So shall my word be
that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. {55:12} For ye shall
go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains
and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and
all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands. {55:13}
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of
the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the
LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be
cut off.
56 {56:1} Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and
do justice: for my salvation [is] near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed. {56:2} Blessed [is] the man
[that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] layeth hold on it;
that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his
hand from doing any evil.
{56:3} Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined
himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly
separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say,
Behold, I [am] a dry tree. {56:4} For thus saith the LORD
unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose [the
things] that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
{56:5} Even unto them will I give in mine house and within
my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of
daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall
not be cut off. {56:6} Also the sons of the stranger, that join
themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name
of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the
sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
{56:7} Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and
make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt
offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon mine
altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for
all people. {56:8} The Lord GOD which gathereth the
outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather [others] to him,
beside those that are gathered unto him.
{56:9} All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea,]
all ye beasts in the forest. {56:10} His watchmen [are]
blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they
cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
{56:11} Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have
enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand:
they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from
his quarter. {56:12} Come ye, [say they,] I will fetch wine,
and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow
shall be as this day, [and] much more abundant.
57 {57:1} The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it]
to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none consider-
ing that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come.]
{57:2} He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their
beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.
{57:3} But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the
seed of the adulterer and the whore. {57:4} Against whom
do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide
mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of
transgression, a seed of falsehood, {57:5} Enflaming
yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the
children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? {57:6}
Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion;
they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a
drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I
receive comfort in these? {57:7} Upon a lofty and high
mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou
up to offer sacrifice. {57:8} Behind the doors also and the
posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast
discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up;
thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with
them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it.] {57:9}
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst
increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far
off, and didst debase [thyself even] unto hell. {57:10} Thou
art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst thou not,
There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand;
therefore thou wast not grieved. {57:11} And of whom hast
thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not
remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? have not I held
my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? {57:12} I
will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall
not profit thee.
{57:13} When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee;
but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take
[them:] but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the
land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; {57:14} And shall
say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the
stumblingblock out of the way of my people. {57:15} For
thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place,]
with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the
contrite ones. {57:16} For I will not contend for ever,
neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail
before me, and the souls [which] I have made. {57:17} For
the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote
him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in
the way of his heart. {57:18} I have seen his ways, and will
heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto
him and to his mourners. {57:19} I create the fruit of the
lips; Peace, peace to [him that is] far off, and to [him that is]
near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. {57:20} But the
wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up mire and dirt. {57:21} [There is] no
peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
58 {58:1} Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a
trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the
house of Jacob their sins. {58:2} Yet they seek me daily,
and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did
righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God:
they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight
in approaching to God.
{58:3} Wherefore have we fasted, [say they,] and thou
seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou
takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find
pleasure, and exact all your labours. {58:4} Behold, ye fast
for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickedness: ye shall not fast as [ye do this] day, to make
your voice to be heard on high. {58:5} Is it such a fast that I
have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to
bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth
and ashes [under him?] wilt thou call this a fast, and an
acceptable day to the LORD? {58:6} [Is] not this the fast
that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to
undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,
and that ye break every yoke? {58:7} [Is it] not to deal thy
bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are
cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou
cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own
flesh?
{58:8} Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy
righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD
shall be thy rereward. {58:9} Then shalt thou call, and the
LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I
[am.] If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the
putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; {58:10}
And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy
the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and
thy darkness [be] as the noonday: {58:11} And the LORD
shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought,
and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered
garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
{58:12} And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old
waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the
breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
{58:13} If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,
[from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the
sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and
shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding
thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:
{58:14} Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I
will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and
feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the
mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it.]
59 {59:1} Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that
it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
{59:2} But your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that
he will not hear. {59:3} For your hands are defiled with
blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken
lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. {59:4} None
calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring
forth iniquity. {59:5} They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and
weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth,
and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. {59:6}
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they
cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works
of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.
{59:7} Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed
innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity;
wasting and destruction [are] in their paths. {59:8} The way
of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their
goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever
goeth therein shall not know peace.
{59:9} Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth
justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity;
for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness. {59:10} We
grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we
had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we
are] in desolate places as dead [men.] {59:11} We roar all
like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for
judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far
off from us. {59:12} For our transgressions are multiplied
before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our
transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we
know them; {59:13} In transgressing and lying against the
LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the
heart words of falsehood. {59:14} And judgment is turned
away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is
fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. {59:15} Yea,
truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh
himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it,] and it displeased
him that [there was] no judgment.
{59:16} And he saw that [there was] no man, and won-
dered that [there was] no intercessor: therefore his arm
brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it
sustained him. {59:17} For he put on righteousness as a
breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and
he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was
clad with zeal as a cloke. {59:18} According to [their]
deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries,
recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
recompence. {59:19} So shall they fear the name of the
LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the
sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit
of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
{59:20} And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto
them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
{59:21} As for me, this [is] my covenant with them, saith
the LORD; My spirit that [is] upon thee, and my words
which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy
mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth
and for ever.
60 {60:1} Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory
of the LORD is risen upon thee. {60:2} For, behold, the
darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory
shall be seen upon thee. {60:3} And the Gentiles shall come
to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. {60:4}
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather
themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come
from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.
{60:5} Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine
heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of
the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the
Gentiles shall come unto thee. {60:6} The multitude of
camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and
Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring
gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of
the LORD. {60:7} All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered
together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto
thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and
I will glorify the house of my glory. {60:8} Who [are] these
[that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
{60:9} Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of
Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and
their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God,
and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified
thee. {60:10} And the sons of strangers shall build up thy
walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my
wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on
thee. {60:11} Therefore thy gates shall be open continually;
they shall not be shut day nor night; that [men] may bring
unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and [that] their kings
[may be] brought. {60:12} For the nation and kingdom that
will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be
utterly wasted. {60:13} The glory of Lebanon shall come
unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to
beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the
place of my feet glorious. {60:14} The sons also of them
that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they
that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of
thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The
Zion of the Holy One of Israel. {60:15} Whereas thou hast
been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through
[thee,] I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many
generations. {60:16} Thou shalt also suck the milk of the
Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt
know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer,
the mighty One of Jacob. {60:17} For brass I will bring
gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass,
and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and
thine exactors righteousness. {60:18} Violence shall no
more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within
thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy
gates Praise. {60:19} The sun shall be no more thy light by
day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto
thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light,
and thy God thy glory. {60:20} Thy sun shall no more go
down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD
shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended. {60:21} Thy people also [shall
be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the
branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be
glorified. {60:22} A little one shall become a thousand, and
a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his
time.
61 {61:1} The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because
the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the
meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to [them that are] bound; {61:2} To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of
our God; to comfort all that mourn; {61:3} To appoint unto
them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be
glorified.
{61:4} And they shall build the old wastes, they shall
raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the
waste cities, the desolations of many generations. {61:5}
And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons
of the alien [shall be] your plowmen and your vinedressers.
{61:6} But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD:
[men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat
the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast
yourselves.
{61:7} For your shame [ye shall have] double; and [for]
confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in
their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall
be unto them. {61:8} For I the LORD love judgment, I hate
robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in
truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
{61:9} And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles,
and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall
acknowledge them, that they [are] the seed [which] the
LORD hath blessed. {61:10} I will greatly rejoice in the
LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath
clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh
[himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth [herself]
with her jewels. {61:11} For as the earth bringeth forth her
bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it
to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness
and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
62 {62:1} For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and
for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness
thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as
a lamp [that] burneth. {62:2} And the Gentiles shall see thy
righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be
called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall
name. {62:3} Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the
hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy
God. {62:4} Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken;
neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou
shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the
LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
{62:5} For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall
thy sons marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over
the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee. {62:6} I have
set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall
never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention
of the LORD, keep not silence, {62:7} And give him no
rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in
the earth. {62:8} The LORD hath sworn by his right hand,
and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give
thy corn [to be] meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the
stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast
laboured: {62:9} But they that have gathered it shall eat it,
and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together
shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
{62:10} Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the
way of the people; cast up, cast up the highways; gather out
the stones; lift up a standard for the people. {62:11} Behold,
the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say
ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh;
behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him.
{62:12} And they shall call them, The holy people, The
redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought
out, A city not forsaken.
63 {63:1} Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with dyed
garments from Bozrah? this [that is] glorious in his apparel,
travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in
righteousness, mighty to save. {63:2} Wherefore [art thou]
red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth
in the winefat? {63:3} I have trodden the winepress alone;
and of the people [there was] none with me: for I will tread
them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their
blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain
all my raiment. {63:4} For the day of vengeance [is] in
mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. {63:5}
And I looked, and [there was] none to help; and I wondered
that [there was] none to uphold: therefore mine own arm
brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
{63:6} And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and
make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their
strength to the earth.
{63:7} I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD,
[and] the praises of the LORD, according to all that the
LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward
the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them
according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of
his lovingkindnesses. {63:8} For he said, Surely they [are]
my people, children [that] will not lie: so he was their
Saviour. {63:9} In all their affliction he was afflicted, and
the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his
pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them
all the days of old.
{63:10} But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit:
therefore he was turned to be their enemy, [and] he fought
against them. {63:11} Then he remembered the days of old,
Moses, [and] his people, [saying,] Where [is] he that
brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his
flock? where [is] he that put his holy Spirit within him?
{63:12} That led [them] by the right hand of Moses with his
glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make
himself an everlasting name? {63:13} That led them
through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, [that] they
should not stumble? {63:14} As a beast goeth down into the
valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst
thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
{63:15} Look down from heaven, and behold from the
habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where [is] thy
zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy
mercies toward me? are they restrained? {63:16} Doubtless
thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and
Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father,
our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.
{63:17} O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy
ways, [and] hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for
thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. {63:18}
The people of thy holiness have possessed [it] but a little
while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
{63:19} We are [thine:] thou never barest rule over them;
they were not called by thy name.
64 {64:1} Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that
thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down
at thy presence, {64:2} As [when] the melting fire burneth,
the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known
to thine adversaries, [that] the nations may tremble at thy
presence! {64:3} When thou didst terrible things [which]
we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed
down at thy presence. {64:4} For since the beginning of the
world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, [what] he
hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. {64:5} Thou
meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, [those
that] remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for
we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be
saved. {64:6} But we are all as an unclean [thing,] and all
our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade
as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us
away. {64:7} And [there is] none that calleth upon thy
name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou
hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of
our iniquities. {64:8} But now, O LORD, thou [art] our
father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all
[are] the work of thy hand.
{64:9} Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither
remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee,
we [are] all thy people. {64:10} Thy holy cities are a
wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
{64:11} Our holy and our beautiful house, where our
fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our
pleasant things are laid waste. {64:12} Wilt thou refrain
thyself for these [things,] O LORD? wilt thou hold thy
peace, and afflict us very sore?
65 {65:1} I am sought of [them that] asked not [for me;]
I am found of [them that] sought me not: I said, Behold me,
behold me, unto a nation [that] was not called by my name.
{65:2} I have spread out my hands all the day unto a
rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that was] not
good, after their own thoughts; {65:3} A people that
provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of
brick; {65:4} Which remain among the graves, and lodge in
the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of
abominable [things is in] their vessels; {65:5} Which say,
Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than
thou. [These] are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all
the day. {65:6} Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not
keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into
their bosom, {65:7} Your iniquities, and the iniquities of
your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned
incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the
hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their
bosom.
{65:8} Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in
the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing [is]
in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not
destroy them all. {65:9} And I will bring forth a seed out of
Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and
mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
{65:10} And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley
of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people
that have sought me.
{65:11} But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that
forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop,
and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
{65:12} Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye
shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called,
ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did
evil before mine eyes, and did choose [that] wherein I
delighted not. {65:13} Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry:
behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty:
behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
{65:14} Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but
ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation
of spirit. {65:15} And ye shall leave your name for a curse
unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call
his servants by another name: {65:16} That he who blesseth
himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth;
and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of
truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and
because they are hid from mine eyes.
{65:17} For, behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come
into mind. {65:18} But be ye glad and rejoice for ever [in
that] which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a
rejoicing, and her people a joy. {65:19} And I will rejoice
in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of
crying. {65:20} There shall be no more thence an infant of
days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the
child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being]
an hundred years old shall be accursed. {65:21} And they
shall build houses, and inhabit [them;] and they shall plant
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. {65:22} They shall not
build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another
eat: for as the days of a tree [are] the days of my people, and
mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. {65:23}
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for
they [are] the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their
offspring with them. {65:24} And it shall come to pass, that
before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet
speaking, I will hear. {65:25} The wolf and the lamb shall
feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock:
and dust [shall be] the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
66 {66:1} Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne,
and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye
build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest? {66:2}
For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those
[things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I
look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and
trembleth at my word. {66:3} He that killeth an ox [is as if]
he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a
dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered]
swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an
idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul
delighteth in their abominations. {66:4} I also will choose
their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;
because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they
did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose
[that] in which I delighted not.
{66:5} Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his
word; your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my
name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall
appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. {66:6} A
voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a
voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his
enemies. {66:7} Before she travailed, she brought forth;
before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
{66:8} Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such
things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day?
[or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion
travailed, she brought forth her children. {66:9} Shall I
bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the
LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb?]
saith thy God. {66:10} Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be
glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her,
all ye that mourn for her: {66:11} That ye may suck, and be
satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may
milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
{66:12} For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend
peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a
flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon
[her] sides, and be dandled upon [her] knees. {66:13} As
one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you;
and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. {66:14} And when
ye see [this,] your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall
flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be
known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his
enemies. {66:15} For, behold, the LORD will come with
fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his
anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. {66:16}
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all
flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. {66:17}
They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the
gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating swine’s flesh,
and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed
together, saith the LORD. {66:18} For I [know] their works
and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all
nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
{66:19} And I will set a sign among them, and I will send
those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish,
Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to]
the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have
seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the
Gentiles. {66:20} And they shall bring all your brethren
[for] an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon
horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and
upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the
LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean
vessel into the house of the LORD. {66:21} And I will also
take of them for priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD.
{66:22} For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I
will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall
your seed and your name remain. {66:23} And it shall come
to pass, [that] from one new moon to another, and from one
sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before
me, saith the LORD. {66:24} And they shall go forth, and
look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed
against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their
fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all
flesh.